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* '''Justified:''' [[ButtMonkey Bob has horrible luck.]]

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* '''Justified:''' '''Justified:'''
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[[ButtMonkey Bob has horrible luck.]] ]]
** [[DidntThinkThisThrough Bob doesn't think things through when under pressure]].
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* '''Enforced:'''

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* '''Enforced:''' This scene was the wrong way example of a [[RightWayWrongWayPair Right Way/Wrong Way Survival Tip]].
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** It keeps on getting [[SerialEscalation worse and worse]].
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* '''Basic Trope:''' A character narrowly escapes a dangerous situation, only to find themselves in another situation that's much, ''much'' worse.
* '''Straight:''' Bob is being chased by the police, and escapes into the woods...where he's [[BearsAreBadNews attacked by a bear.]]
* '''Exaggerated:''' Bob escapes from the police, and finds Satan himself in the woods.
** Alternatively, he finds God, who is ''not'' pleased about...whatever he did to get the cops after him.
* '''Downplayed:''' The bear is injured and cannot run very fast, but it still wants to maul Bob.
* '''Justified:''' [[ButtMonkey Bob has horrible luck.]]
* '''Inverted:''' Bob gets his MeanBoss at work fired, and ends up becoming the manager.
* '''Subverted:''' Bob escapes from the police, and sees a bear. However, the bear turns out to be BearyFriendly.
* '''Double Subverted:''' ...Because it wasn't hungry. But now that it sees Bob...
* '''Parodied:''' Every time Bob escapes from danger, that very same bear will appear to administer justice, no matter where he is.
* '''Zig-Zagged:''' Bob finds a bear, but it's not hungry so it leaves him alone. But then it ''does'' get hungry and starts chasing him. [[CrazyPrepared Good thing he kept food for the bear...]] Except it's not enough and the bear starts chasing him again, but then the bear sees the cops and attacks them instead.
* '''Averted:''' Bob escapes from the police, and there is no bear in sight.
* '''Enforced:'''
* '''Lampshaded:'''
--> Whew, that was close...Is that a bear? OH GOD! '''OH GOD!'''
* '''Invoked:''' Bob runs into the woods, hoping the bear will attack his pursuers.
* '''Exploited:''' Which it does.
* '''Defied:''' Bob thinks about running into the woods, but then thinks that there could be bears, which would be even worse...and so he decides against it.
* '''Discussed:'''
* '''Conversed:'''
* '''Implied:''' The cops lament that Bob is gone...but then they hear very loud screaming in the woods, along with a bear growling.
* '''Deconstructed:''' Bob tries to run from the bear...to no avail.
* '''Reconstructed:'''
* '''Played For Laughs:''' The bear insists that it's friendly, but now Bob is horrified by the fact that it can talk.
* '''Played For Drama:'''
* '''Played For Horror:''' Bob is brutally mauled by the bear, and there's no GoryDiscretionShot to save the viewer's eyes.

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